# University of Michigan HEAL PAIN Cohort Program

> **NIH NIH R90** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2024 · $303,268

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT 
We feel that the Department of Anesthesiology and the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center (CPFRC) 
at the University of Michigan (UM) would be ideally positioned to be a part of the HEAL PAIN Cohort Program. 
We already have established inter-disciplinary partnerships with investigative teams at UM and beyond who 
work in nearly all of the disciplines listed in the FOA including engineering, social sciences, epidemiology, 
biostatistics, computer sciences, bioengineering, addiction medicine, public health, and or mental 
health/behavioral health. Our core CPFRC faculty share this inter-disciplinary diversity. Amongst our 11 core 
faculty we only have one physician; we have three pain psychologists, two neuroscientists, a 
psychoneuroimmunologist, a social scientist, an epidemiologist, an environmental health scientist turned 
cannabis and psychedelic researcher, and a social worker turned neuroscientist (Baker). However we do not 
currently have a post-doctoral training grant specifically designed to support and train the next generation of 
inter-disciplinary post-doctoral clinical pain researchers. 
Our proposed University of Michigan (UM) HEAL Initiative® Partnership to Advance INterdisciplinary (PAIN) 
Training in Clinical Pain Research (the UM HEAL PAIN Cohort T90/R90) will support interdisciplinary 
postdoctoral training to promote the next generation of independent clinical pain researchers. We feel that the 
proposed UM HEAL PAIN Cohort Program can provide exemplary training in six of ten HEAL content areas, 
including: chronic overlapping pain conditions; effective interventions for pain and co-morbidities; non-opioid 
pharmacological treatments for pain; nonpharmacological interventions for pain; pain across the lifespan; 
prevention of the transition from acute to chronic pain; and bioinformatics. We also feel that our program 
mentors can provide clinical pain research training in several fields that have not historically been well 
represented in pain research including engineering; social sciences; epidemiology; biostatistics; computer 
sciences; addiction medicine; public health; and mental health/behavioral health. 
Although we have identified and named five mentors who are established pain researchers and five others in 
the under-represented fields, UM has a vast number of established pain researchers and mentors at various 
points in their career that are not accustomed to receiving effort to mentor. Those non-named UM faculty will 
augment the mentors named in the grant, to enable us to assign each trainee both a junior and senior mentor, 
since we feel they often bring different perspectives. We also are using departmental support of the CPFRC 
Health Equity Core and its many patient partners with lived experience. We will also assign each trainee a 
person with lived experience to be part of their mentoring team. The curriculum and evaluation programs for 
this program are built upon several ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11116095
- **Project number:** 1R90DE034698-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** Daniel J Clauw
- **Activity code:** R90 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $303,268
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-07-01 → 2029-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11116095

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11116095, University of Michigan HEAL PAIN Cohort Program (1R90DE034698-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11116095. Licensed CC0.

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